Word: progressions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION grows more and more impossible, it seems. Our civilization's relentless progress towards a controlled creation has brought us beyond test-tube babies to DNA-making; we don't even need the sperm and the egg any more. Careful analysis, research and thought have unraveled the fundamental mystery of human life. Soon our children won't be merely the fruit of our desires, but of conscious intellect. "I think, therefore I am" takes on a new dimension...
...feels about what he does as either "positive" or "negative." The combination of these elements of energy and attitude places the man in one of four categories ranging from passive-negative to active-positive, with active-negative producing the greatest potential for tragedy, active-positive the best hope for progress. Already some observers have rated Ford passive-positive and Carter a near active-negative who by the grace of God slipped into the active-positive category...
...Progress Reports. In the meantime, Kissinger moved quickly to keep black African leaders informed. At Lusaka he saw Kenneth Kaunda, then Julius Nyerere in Dar es Salaam. A week earlier, the Tanzanian had been distinctly pessimistic about the Kissinger mission, at least in public. This time Nyerere was in a buoyant mood, speaking with far greater candor about the substance of the proposals put to Smith than anyone else had done all week. Next, Kissinger flew to Kinshasa to brief Zaïre's flamboyant President Mobutu Sese Seko, then on to Nairobi to see Kenya's venerable...
What pleased McCurdy even more than his squad's second tiebreaker win in as many seasons was the progress the harriers have made in comparison with their performances last year at this stage of the season...
...guns versus rice, central versus local control, equality of education versus political control over it--grew most extreme during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-59 and the Cultural Revolution of the '60s. These startlingly unstable campaigns delineate a unique element in Mao's leadership. Convinced that China would progress only if the principles of revolution remained vital, he encouraged the Chinese people's awareness of the perpetual struggle between two poles--the revolutionary line and the "capitalist road" or "revisionism." Mao's teachings acted as a fulcrum on which these lines would weigh, teeter a bit, and finally reach...